Contribute to the Preservation of Milwaukee History by Donating Your Papers
The UWM Archives and Special Collections Department welcomes donation offers for the papers of individuals, families, and organizations that speak to the history of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and select topics in the history of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. If accepted into the archives, your records will be preserved and shared with researchers locally and across the world along with the papers of hundreds of other people who have entrusted their papers with Archives and Special Collections.
Donated materials become part of our manuscript holdings. They are preserved in our climate-controlled secure storage area; arranged, foldered, boxed, and otherwise enclosed to slow deterioration; and described in an online inventory and the UWM Libraries’ catalog to facilitate research. Researchers can consult these materials freely in the reading room during Archives and Special Collections’ open hours.
If your papers are not ultimately accepted into Archives and Special Collections, we may be able to advise you on another repository that would be interested in them.
For more information, contact us.
Support Special Collections with a Gift of Rare Books and Special Printed Materials
Our rare book and special printed materials collections are supported both by financial gifts and by donations of materials. Donations of rare books and printed materials that are within our collecting scope will be preserved in our secure stacks, added to the library’s online catalog, and made available for students, faculty, and the general public to view in our reading room.
If your books are not ultimately accepted into our collections, we may be able to advise you on another repository that would potentially be interested in them.
Sustain the Archives with a Financial Gift
Monetary donations to Archives and Special Collections have:
- endowed or helped build rare book collections,
- supported renovation of our facility,
- funded internships to process collections,
- purchases supplies to effectively preserve materials,
- and funded public programming.
Your support of Archives and Special Collections helps us provide free public access to critical teaching and research tools and to the documentary history of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
For additional information, contact University Advancement.
Transfer University Records
Archives and Special Collections serves as the repository of records with long-term historical value created by UWM employees in the conduct of university business. Many of these records are transferred to the archives by offices and employees during routine disposition of records as part of the university’s records management program.
If you or your office has records you believe have historical value for UWM and are interested in transferring them to the archives for long-term preservation, see here for more information.